Despite Yahoo’s recent decision to rescind employee rights to telecommuting, more and more of us are working from home, at least part of the time. If you spend a significant amount of work time in your apartment, banging out assignments at the dining room table might not quite suffice. Keep your materials and tasks in […]

If you’re already scheming about how clean you’ll get your house this spring, read up on these handy ideas for an apartment so sparkling, it’ll look new. Supplies Get everything you need before you start cleaning—nothing ruins a cleaning buzz like an hour-long trip to the store. Gloves, cleaning fluids, sponges, mops, rags, dusters—the […]

One of the most important factors of decorating is controlling the light in a room. In an apartment, natural light, ambient light, task light and accent light should work together to make a room feel brighter. By selecting the appropriate light for a space or need, an apartment renter can make their apartment brighter and […]

This first list will focus primarily on items you need to buy for your kitchen, since this room is home to the most overlooked items. You don’t want to have moved into your apartment, finally gotten settled and realize that you don’t have any reasonably safe way to open the bottle of wine bought to […]